By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent, in Mexico City
At the heart of its smartest district is one of the most dangerous places in the whole of Mexico City: Tepito market.
It's the centre of criminal activity - a trading point for guns, drugs and every variant of goods.
If you shop there, you know you are buying items of debatable legitimacy, and contributing to an all-pervading lawlessness that seems to be accepted as normal life.
And it does seem normal, except an outsider like me can't walk around without protection, and couldn't meet the people who live on the edges of society.
People here can earn far more than anywhere accessible to them on the right side of the law - by sinking into a shadowy world of crime and murder.
"Carlos" is an assassin. Over a 25-year career he has killed between 500 and 900 people while working for the drug cartels, politicians and the military.
We met deep in the warren of alleyways and warehouses in the core of Tepito.
He says that the network of cartel power is so entrenched in society and powered by so much money that it is unstoppable.
The police and the military, he says, are often involved in the planning and execution of his hits.
"On some occasions, we have to go to places where weapons are not allowed and then they (police) meet us," he told me.
"They take us to a hotel and they provide all the weapons that we may need, money and everything so that one can do the job one has to do."
The abduction of 43 students last September has forced Mexico into confronting its crime problems.
Carlos believes that the students are already dead, and uses a chilling example from his own experience to explain why he is so certain.
"Let me tell you a story. Some protestors came. We let them in and then we closed the road, we closed the entrance, we closed the exit. When they were stuck in the middle we killed them all," he recounted.
"Then a (rubbish) truck from the army came and collected them all. Then street sweeper machines went past. They opened the road again, as if nothing had happened.
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